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University of Copenhagen Incorporation of the Transgressive Sex and Pornography in Danish Feature Films of the 1970s Thorsen, Christian Isak Published in: Cine-Excess Publication date: 2016 Document version Publisher's PDF, also known as Version of record Citation for published version (APA): Thorsen, C. I. (2016). Incorporation of the Transgressive: Sex and Pornography in Danish Feature Films of the 1970s. Cine-Excess, 2, 99-117. http://www.cine-excess.co.uk/incorporation-of-the-transgressive-sex-and- pornography-in-danish-feature-films-of-the-1970s.html Download date: 29. Sep. 2021 Incorporation of the Transgressive: Sex and Pornography in Danish Feature Films of the 1970s Isak Thorsen Abstract: Denmark was the first country in the world to The article suggests that a few feature film liberate picture pornography in 1969, and this from the mid 1970s unsuccessfully tried to article addresses how mainstream Danish revitalise the transgressive potential of feature film incorporated the transgressive pornography, for instance by combining sex potential of sex and pornography during the and Christianity. But the initial wave of late 1960s and early 1970s. Using a historical liberation had taken place and pushing borders perspective, the article describes the even further in an attempt to bring even more circumstances leading up to the liberalization transgressive material into the mainstream was of picture pornography. It also considers how doomed. In the late 1970s pornography Denmark for a short period of time became gradually left the mainstream cinemas and known as the centre of porn in the world, often returned to a similar situation to the one that attracting film-makers from abroad. This status existed prior to the 1969 change in legislation, quickly ebbed, but porn and sex migrated into and hereby pornography regained a subcultural mainstream culture via for instance the Danish status. feature film. Overall the Danish feature film incorporated and commercialised the transgressiveness of sex and pornography in Keywords: Pornography, Denmark, sex-films, three ways: in actual porn-films, in sex-comedies, transgressivness, subculture vs. documentary-like films and in sex-comedies. mainstream culture. 99 Introduction On the 1st July 1969, Denmark became the Though McNair’s aim in his book is first country in the world to lift the ban on historically different from the focus of this picture pornography, instantly acquiring a article, his cycle can serve as a frame for how unique position internationally and rapidly pornography went from being a sub-cultural becoming synonymous with sex and phenomenon in Denmark in the 1960s, to pornography.1 This liberalisation of being commented upon and analysed and pornography didn’t happen in a vacuum, ultimately (at least legally) accepted and however, and the following article explores the incorporated into mainstream Danish culture gradual changes in attitudes towards sex and from 1969. pornography that took place during the 1960s, and the reasons why and ways in which the The Expansion of Pornography Danish feature film assimilated, popularised One of the reasons that the Conservative and commodified sex and pornography in the Minister of Justice Knud Thestrup gave when 1970s. he proposed the law abolishing the ban of picture pornography was to diminish curiosity In his book Porno? Chic! Brian McNair towards pornography among the general proposes a ‘cycle of liberalisation’ to describe population. 75,000 copies of erotic books were how a sub-cultural transgression like printed each year in 1960-1961; the following pornography becomes integrated in year nearly 250,000 copies of erotic literature mainstream culture: as well as 200,000 copies of sex-educational books were published; and the volume of 1. Sub-cultural transgression Provokes: 2. erotic literature peaked in 1967 with 1.4 Critical commentary and analysis Leads to: 3. Mainstream commentary and analysis, as million books printed. Subsequently, the well as pastiche, parody Produces: 4. Resolution/tolerance/acceptance Leads to: 5. repeal of the obscenity clause on literature in Incorporation of transgression.2 Denmark in 1967 reversed this trend leading to 3 a decrease in the sale of erotic literature. But the law on picture pornography worked in 100 quite a different way, as Thestrup admits in his The estimated retail turnover of the overall memoires: “It has to be acknowledged, that the Danish porn industry in 1969 was $50 million abolition of punishment caused a wave of and 50-60% of the material produced was pornographic pictures.”4 smuggled into other countries, for instance to Britain, hidden in the refrigerated trucks One of the few sources of data on pornography transporting Danish bacon.7 According to at the time is the research of Danish Kutchinsky’s sources, the amount of material criminologist Berl Kutchinsky who conducted seized by police and customs was between 5 a series of empirically based investigations on and 30%.8 John Heidenry has called Denmark pornography and crime around New Year in 1969 “the Wild West of XXX-rated porn,”9 1970, less than half a year after the passing of and the sexually liberated Denmark attracted the new law. Though Kutchinsky expresses filmmakers from abroad – foremost from reservations concerning the reliability of his USA. research, his data does provide some indication as to the diffusion of pornography at The American Invasion the time. He estimated that approximately 100- Eric Schaefer describes how for Americans the 120 porn shops had been established in nationality equated with ‘sexy’ shifted from Denmark, of which about 60 were situated in France to Denmark and Sweden during the the capital, Copenhagen.5 In Sexionary, a 1960s. He writes that, “Americans guide to what Copenhagen had to offer on sex, increasingly looked to Northern Europe, published in German and English and aimed at specifically to Denmark and Sweden, to help the curious tourist, approximately 40 porn define what was liberated and sexually shops, strip-bars and the like in the capital are appealing,” and observes that American focus mentioned, together with more than 80 porn- on Scandinavian sex exploded in the summer related companies, such as post-order of 1969 when Denmark abolished the laws companies, printers, publishing houses and restricting the sale of pornography.10 film production companies.6 101 One of the first results of the new law was the like depiction of Denmark and pornography, establishment of the world’s first sex trade and on the other, it was able to show forbidden fair, Sex 69, held in October 1969 in hard-core sex. The film can further be seen as Copenhagen. 300-350 journalists, together part of the debate on liberating the American with nearly 50,000 visitors, many of them obscenity laws, and the final voice-over of the tourists, flocked to the six-day long event.11 film underlines that the Danish experiment Among the participants was the American does not necessarily lead to antisocial or director Alex de Renzy, who shot the criminal behaviour, asking the audience if documentary Pornography in Denmark – A there is sufficient justification for the New Approach/ Censorship in Denmark – A censorship of adult entertainment in the United New Approach (1970). The film comprises a States. Another American production, Sexual combination of on-the-spot reports from the Freedom in Denmark (1970), directed by John sex trade fair, interviews with Danes talking Lamb, is quite similar, though its depiction of about their opinion of pornography and sex, nude Danes playing on a sailing ship on a montages from Copenhagen showing both the bright summer day and images from a nude red light districts with porn cinemas and shops, contest were probably not shot in Denmark. as well as traditional travelogue images such The film also mixes interviews, images of as the Little Mermaid statue, the royal castle, Copenhagen and reports on sex education with etc. It also included explicit hard-core scenes, a message of repudiating censorship in the but since de Renzy had filmed these sequences United States. The Danish-West German co- straight from the screens, he could claim that production Sådan er porno/ Facts: his film was not pornographic but merely Kopenhagen-Sex-Report (1971), directed by documenting the phenomena of pornography Werner M. Lenz, offers yet another peek in another country. In this way Pornography in behind the curtains of the Danish porn- Denmark passed the strict censorship laws in industry combined with interviews pro- and the US and became one of the first films to contra- free pornography, this time aimed at a show hard-core sex in American cinemas. On West-German audience. one hand, the film offers an anthropological- 102 Other Americans who found the lenient was the inevitable manifestation of a higher, Danish laws attractive were Eberhaus and freer consciousness.”12 The Kronhausens’ Phyllis Kronhausen, the psychologist couple virtual sexual-political manifesto championing who specialised in sexuality and who relocated the transgressive potential of sexuality as to Denmark in 1970. In Germany, the couple liberation was apparently only shown uncut in had made the film Freiheit für die Liebe/ Denmark. They then went on to directed Freedom to Love (1969) and with the backing Porno Pop (1971), a feature length of the established and respectable Danish compilation of old stag-films, and the Swiss- production company Palladium they made the Danish co-production The Hottest Show in film Hvorfor gør de det?/ Why? (1971). The Town/Sex cirkusse (1974), which was shot in narrative frame of the film is an event in the Denmark with mainly Danish actors and deals old historical ceremonial hall of the Student’s with a circus on the verge of bankruptcy which association in Copenhagen: two large comes up with the idea of spicing up their acts mattresses were placed in the centre of the hall with hard-core sex.
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